Progress in flying machines
By: by Octave Chanute.  Being a Facsimile of The Whole of The First 1894 Edition including original illustrations.  With foreword by Alan B. Shepard.
Edition: [Facsimile ed.]
Publisher: Lorenz & Herweg; Brand: Lorenz Herweg; Lorenz & Herweg Publishers
Published: 1894
Place of publication: Long Beach, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Flying-machines.; Airplanes.
Notes: "... a series of articles on 'Progress in flying machines', as distinguished from balloons, which have been published in the Railroad and engineering journal (now redesignated as the American engineer), of New York city.  The first article appeared in October, 1891..."

Appendix:  The flight of the albatross.  Paper read before the Balloon society, October 3, 1884.  By Thomas Moy. - The flying man.  The carrying capacity of arched surfaces in sailing flight.  By Otto Lilienthal.  Translated from Zeitschrift für luftschiffahrt und physik der atmosphäre for November 1893.

This edition includes additional biographical material on the author.